Conflicts have serious effects on food security

Eshilunyire Primary School pupils in Butere sub-county during 4K-club sack mount farming in promoting food security. [Jackline Inyanji, Standard]

For the nearly one hour taken to write this article, 75 humans may have lost their lives to severe hunger somewhere in East Africa, particularly in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia.

This is as per latest estimates by Oxfam and Save The Children in a report dubbed “Dangerous Delay 2: The Cost of Inaction”, which says at least one person dies of hunger in the region every 48 seconds courtesy of “conflict, Covid-19, climate crisis and inflationary and market pressures accelerated by the current conflict in Ukraine”.